My 1001 Albums Journey

Album	You	Global	Diff
Slipknot Slipknot	5	2.68	+2.32
Kollaps Einstürzende Neubauten	4	1.91	+2.09
Tellin’ Stories The Charlatans	5	2.95	+2.05
Here Come The Warm Jets Brian Eno	5	3.07	+1.93
The Real Thing Faith No More	5	3.2	+1.8
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Aphex Twin	5	3.21	+1.79
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	5	3.23	+1.77
Rust In Peace Megadeth	5	3.24	+1.76
Faith George Michael	5	3.27	+1.73
Since I Left You The Avalanches	5	3.28	+1.72

Album	You	Global	Diff
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar	1	3.61	-2.61
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar	1	3.61	-2.61
Aja Steely Dan	1	3.47	-2.47
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	1	3.43	-2.43
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West	1	3.42	-2.42
Ready To Die The Notorious B.I.G.	1	3.37	-2.37
The Chronic Dr. Dre	1	3.33	-2.33
The College Dropout Kanye West	1	3.31	-2.31
Melodrama Lorde	1	3.31	-2.31
In The Wee Small Hours Frank Sinatra	1	3.28	-2.28

Artist	Albums	Average
Beatles	4	4.5
Metallica	3	4.67
Led Zeppelin	2	5
Iron Maiden	2	5
Green Day	2	5
Brian Eno	3	4.33
Black Sabbath	3	4.33
Stevie Wonder	3	4.33
U2	3	4.33

Artist	Albums	Average
Tom Waits	3	1
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5	1.6
Kanye West	2	1
Frank Sinatra	2	1
Public Image Ltd.	2	1
Kendrick Lamar	2	1
Steely Dan	3	1.67
Everything But The Girl	2	1.5
Dinosaur Jr.	2	1.5
Joni Mitchell	4	2
Elvis Presley	3	2

Artist	Ratings
Slipknot	5, 2
The Who	5, 2, 3
Madonna	3, 4, 1
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	2, 4, 1
The Byrds	1, 4, 2, 3

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd

5/5

Pink Floyd at their very best

Live At The Regal

B.B. King

4/5

Never really listened to blues properly and this is a masterclass - what a voice.

Rage Against The Machine

3/5

Released in 1992 and an album I liked but didn’t love. The tracks are commentary on American racism, police brutality, corporate greed - all of which are unfortunately still as relevant today (if not more so) and the desire to rise up and reclaim power. My issue has always been that it ends up all sounding the same - by halfway through the album you’ve switched off to the lyrics as De la Rocha screams in your ear and the guitar and bass fight for dominance on the audio.

Band On The Run

Paul McCartney and Wings

3/5

An album that sums up Paul McCartney - willing to throw anything at the wall and see what sticks. There’s highs and lows on this one - the opening 3 tracks are some of his best solo work, then it dips for a bit and picks up at the end.

Morrison Hotel

The Doors

2/5

I’ve never really liked the doors and this doesn’t change my mind. Not sure what makes this one of the 1001 albums I need to listen to but I have now done that and probably won’t listen to it ever again. A 2 pointer just to let me rate another of their albums lower.

It's Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

A band I’ve heard of but not listened to. Pleasantly surprised - maybe just because this was a Monday morning album and I needed something upbeat but this hit all the right notes. A couple of tracks fell flat on the 2nd half for me but overall a decent album that will make me go back and listen to their other work.

Homework

Daft Punk

5/5

One of the albums on the list I’ve listened to since I first heard “da Funk” with the iconic video of the dog man walking the streets of New York. Probably my personal 3rd favourite Daft Punk album (Alive 2007 and Discovery beat it to the punch) but even with that it’s still a 5 star for me. Just sad they’ve split up and I won’t get a chance to see them perform their magic live.

Screamadelica

Primal Scream

4/5

It’s a weird album that I never fully got into at the time as all that stuff was diametrically opposed to my rock sensibilities at the time - obv then I went to college and the drugs kicked in :) Still an album of highs and lows as it gets a bit lost in the “we have samplers” of the late 80’s house music scene but is certainly an album that defined a decade in how it managed to blend house, rock and gospel.

Shadowland

k.d. lang

1/5

Country isn’t a genre I really enjoy and this album of covers is a mixed bag. There’s a couple of decent tunes but most of them just feel forced. Another one ticked off the list but I can’t say it’s made me a country fan or any more inclined to listen to KD Lang.

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin

5/5

One of the best albums of all time. There isn’t a bad track on here - even Moby Dick which is just essentially a 4 minute drum solo is superb. Few albums can top this - apart from maybe Led Zep IV but it’s a close call.

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto

3/5

An inoffensive album that absolutely sounds like the 60’s - couple of proper stinkers on there that break the feel of the album but in general it’s the kind of thing I’d expect to play in the background of a hotel lobby somewhere. I’m now off to watch Austin Powers.

Can't Buy A Thrill

Steely Dan

2/5

What can I say - it’s inoffensive American radio rock - AOR I think they used to call it. Is it bad - no - is it in any way exceptional - no.

That's The Way Of The World

Earth, Wind & Fire

4/5

Soulful, funky upbeat 70’s.

The Coral

1/5

Sea shanties, reggae, indie rock, ska all blended together to become less than the sum of its parts. Dreaming of you is a standout song in a sea of try hard blandness - I can only think when they drew the list up and needed to include 2002 there was very little from that year to choose from.

Clube Da Esquina

Milton Nascimento

4/5

Part of the reason I started this journey was to hear music that wouldn’t normally have appeared on my radar. Really enjoyed this one.

Here Come The Warm Jets

Brian Eno

5/5

I wondered what I was getting with a solo Brian Eno album but this a surprising classic that seems to have eluded me until now.

The College Dropout

Kanye West

1/5

Can you separate art and the artist. Not when they get even a penny of my streaming money. This may be the greatest album of all time (it’s not) but I’ll skip it as Kanye is a piece of shit.

A Northern Soul

The Verve

3/5

Melodrama

Lorde

1/5

I’m obviously getting old as this sounds like much of the current line of female pop, I couldn’t tell the difference between a Lorde song and a hundred other chart songs. Forgettable.

Illinois

Sufjan Stevens

2/5

Document

R.E.M.

4/5

One of the best albums from REM who had a run of classics from 87 -92.

Honky Tonk Heroes

Waylon Jennings

2/5

Not a big country fan but quite enjoyed this.

Zombie

Fela Kuti

2/5

I can appreciate this without actually enjoying it.

The Specials

2/5

Feast of Wire

Calexico

2/5

Stripped

Christina Aguilera

1/5

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

4/5

Another one I know songs from but never listened to - can hear the influence this had directly on bands like Nirvana. One that I’ll now have on my rotation of albums I think.

Calenture

The Triffids

1/5

Had never heard of this band and after listening to the album I know why. Generic 80’s sounds abound and it occasionally reminds you of music by a better artist. Not sure why I needed to listen to this one before I die - unless it was to show me there were better albums in this year. If you want a better Aussie music from 1987 go listen to INXS - Kick which is criminally missing from the list.

Djam Leelii

Baaba Maal

2/5

It’s always interesting when you get handed something that’s well outside your usual musical sphere however the album feels overly long - probably because by the end of the second track it becomes very similar sounding (to my ears at least). Glad to have listened to it but it’s not for me.

Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

2/5

It’s alright - mid 90’s R&B but ultimately forgettable background music.

Elephant

The White Stripes

5/5

An album I’ve heard but never really listened to if that makes sense. I didn’t get into the white stripes - probably because I was going through my “it’s popular so can’t be good” phase. Well I’m proven wrong as this album is an absolute joy from beginning to end. Starting with the best bassline ever and just keeping the momentum going for the entire album. Ball and biscuit being an absolute highlight.

Devil Without A Cause

Kid Rock

1/5

Absolute tosh.

Hot Rats

Frank Zappa

4/5

There’s a fine line between genius and madman - Zappa strides it confidently. Probably his most accessible album but even then it tests your patience at times when it descends into the band having a drawn out jam session.

Seventeen Seconds

The Cure

4/5

B-52's

The B-52's

2/5

I’ve listened to the B-52’s several times and outside of a couple of tracks just haven’t got on with them. This still hasn’t changed.

Out of Step

Minor Threat

2/5

I think I’m not angry enough these days to appreciate this but can hear the influence it had on a lot of stuff I did listen to.

...Baby One More Time

Britney Spears

2/5

Pearl

Janis Joplin

3/5

An album/artist I haven’t listened to in 20+ years. She had an amazing voice but the overall album is a mixed bag.

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye

3/5

Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Frank Sinatra

1/5

Elevator music for old people in vegas.

In A Silent Way

Miles Davis

3/5

A 2 track jazz fusion jam session - oh god what will I need to endure!! First listen I was a bit bemused at what I was listening to. Second listen I found some moments that I quite enjoyed. Third listen I realised it needed to be approached like an aphex twin ambient album - let yourself just be taken where the band leads you. I’m not a jazz convert yet but it’s not the painful experience I’d anticipated. A decent 3 that may one day become a 4 if I go back to it in future times.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

5/5

Too Rye Ay

Dexys Midnight Runners

2/5

I only knew the singles and they are still the best things from this. Surprised to find they have more than one album - even more surprising to find there’s 3 on the list as I honestly thought they were at most a one album wonder. Shows how much of an impact they had one me in the 80s.

White Ladder

David Gray

2/5

Diamond Life

Sade

3/5

Fleet Foxes

1/5

Siembra

Willie Colón & Rubén Blades

3/5

Natty Dread

Bob Marley & The Wailers

3/5

Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

3/5

Starts pretty normally and descends into absolute madness. Musically excellent when it tries and as mad as a box of frogs at others. I can’t say I enjoyed about half of the album but it’s certainly an experience.

Metallica

4/5

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield

3/5

Still an album that I struggle to like - just kinda meandering around and never sounding like something cohesive. Influential but not for me.

Kind Of Blue

Miles Davis

5/5

This has made me enjoy jazz’

Central Reservation

Beth Orton

3/5

Get Behind Me Satan

The White Stripes

3/5

Fear Of A Black Planet

Public Enemy

4/5

Microshift

Hookworms

3/5

New Boots And Panties

Ian Dury

2/5

Kimono My House

Sparks

4/5

So outside of the 1st track I’d never heard this - no idea why it’s all kinds of awesome. Eclectic, funny and just on the right side of glam rock to keep me listening. I always knew that lots of bands mention sparks as an influence and now I know why.

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

3/5

I always took Dylan as folky guitar, mouth organ and mumbled “singing”. This however shows he was at one point capable of making every syllable crystal clear. This allows you to hear the one thing he did better than anyone - lyrics. There’s a reason his songs get covered by so many artists. Did it convert me to a fan - probably not but I have a better appreciation of the man.

Konnichiwa

Skepta

1/5

I’m just too old and not from London so grime just annoys me.

Channel Orange

Frank Ocean

2/5

Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival

3/5

Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

4/5

One of the defining albums of the 80’s - when I think back to visiting London the number of Frankie says shirts, the videos, the controversy but thankfully the music is also superb. Pleasuredome, Relax, Two Tribes and power of love are still as good now as they ever were. There’s still too many covers padding out the run time (despite the quality of them) and that keeps it from a 5 but the big tacks absolutely justify a 4.

Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

Is there anything that screams 70’s prog excess more than a prog rock adaptation of a classical piece inspired by an exhibition of a dead painters art. This may well be the absolute embodiment of why the genre became hugely uncool and died. It’s not that it’s bad it’s just getting so high on the smell of its own farts that you can almost taste it now. I bet the audience in Newcastle still have folk asking “who dropped one” when they walk into a room the stench is so great.

Tonight's The Night

Neil Young

2/5

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Beatles

5/5

Feel wrong to have to rate this as it’s one of the most influential albums of all time, one of my most played and most loved. There’s a reason it’s so well regarded.

The Undertones

3/5

I enjoyed this but didn’t love it.

Quiet Life

Japan

3/5

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel

3/5

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

2/5

Late 80’s hiphop/ house has aged badly.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Red Hot Chili Peppers

3/5

Violent Femmes

4/5

There's No Place Like America Today

Curtis Mayfield

4/5

Deep Purple In Rock

Deep Purple

3/5

Arc Of A Diver

Steve Winwood

1/5

Everything awful about 80’s music in one album.

At Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash

4/5

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

3/5

Aladdin Sane

David Bowie

3/5

Crime Of The Century

Supertramp

3/5

A Night At The Opera

Queen

4/5

Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

The Byrds

1/5

xx

The xx

4/5

Cupid & Psyche 85

Scritti Politti

2/5

Mid 80’s chart pop - exactly the kind of stuff I hated back in the day.

Low

David Bowie

4/5

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

3/5

Didn’t enjoy as much as the more Freeform long play stuff we’ve already had - still good though.

British Steel

Judas Priest

4/5

An absolute classic slice of British metal - I was always more of a maiden fan but you can see their influences are the same.

New Wave

The Auteurs

1/5

Had never heard of this band before - after listening I know why.

Idlewild

Everything But The Girl

1/5

Christ I hated them in he 80’s - I haven’t changed my opinion - hold music for car insurance.

Live!

Fela Kuti

4/5

Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J

1/5

Songs The Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

2/5

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

MC Solaar

3/5

A French hip hop album - really!! That was my first thoughts when hitting play - however despite not understanding what’s being said the album has a really nice chilled flow. I considered looking up a translation but some things are best left alone.

1984

Van Halen

4/5

Headquarters

The Monkees

4/5

If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears

The Mamas & The Papas

3/5

Joan Armatrading

2/5

Darklands

The Jesus And Mary Chain

4/5

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

4/5

Hadn’t heard this in years - still holds up well

Snivilisation

Orbital

3/5

All Things Must Pass

George Harrison

4/5

White Blood Cells

The White Stripes

4/5

I’m a Lonesome Fugitive

Merle Haggard

2/5

Court And Spark

Joni Mitchell

2/5

In Our Heads

Hot Chip

2/5

Scream, Dracula, Scream

Rocket From The Crypt

2/5

Juju

Siouxsie And The Banshees

4/5

Stardust

Willie Nelson

2/5

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

3/5

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis

4/5

A classic bit of prog

Pretenders

3/5

The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Iron Maiden

5/5

Smash

The Offspring

3/5

Listening to this just reminds me of getting wasted playing Tony hawks pro skater for hours at a mates house. Doesn’t quite stand the test of time but there’s a few tracks that are still great.

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

5/5

A classic and cornerstone of metal.

Liege And Lief

Fairport Convention

3/5

The Boatman's Call

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

I just can’t get into Nick Cave - his voice grates and he seems like the most miserable man on the planet. This album especially - I had to split up the listen over an entire day to get through it without wanting to drink bleach.

Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake

5/5

Had never heard of this artist until today and I listened to all 3 of his albums. An absolute hidden gem to me and one I’ll be adding to my regular playlist.

The ArchAndroid

Janelle Monáe

2/5

I can appreciate talent but it’s not for me.

Run-D.M.C.

3/5

A classic but maybe not one that’s stood the test of time.

Metal Box

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

I’m all for experimenting in music but this tuneless mess of an album isn’t anything more than up his own arse Lydon furiously masturbating at how edgy he thinks he is. The only thing holding this together is the bass playing on every track which might be the only redeeming feature.

Arrival

ABBA

4/5

I never really thought of abba as an album band - big hit singles are their bread and butter. This kinda show that - the singles are top class 70’s pop but the rest are a mixed bag.

The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden

5/5

The album that got me into metal - I had everything Maiden recorded between this and Fear of the Dark and have listened to this one regularly for the last 40 years.

Tarkus

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

3/5

Is there such a thing as too proggy - this may be it.

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

3/5

Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf

5/5

An all time classic. Meat Loaf may have been the only person who could pull off this OTT mix of rock, opera and pure cheese.

Fly Or Die

N.E.R.D

2/5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

TV On The Radio

2/5

Pretzel Logic

Steely Dan

2/5

It's A Shame About Ray

The Lemonheads

3/5

Van Halen

3/5

I should like van halen - a talented front man, some amazing guitar work but it just feels like the single influence on 80’s hair metal and the US bands that made the genre a joke. Some decent songs but not enough for me to listen again.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OutKast

4/5

Black Metal

Venom

3/5

An album I’ve not listened to since my first foray into metal in the 80’s. Wasn’t to my taste then but can see the influence it had on entire genre.

Machine Head

Deep Purple

5/5

Kick Out The Jams (Live)

MC5

4/5

An interesting listen - hadn’t heard of them before and it’s definitely a massive influence on what would become punk in a few years.

Bayou Country

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Crosby, Stills & Nash

3/5

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

4/5

At San Quentin

Johnny Cash

4/5

Younger Than Yesterday

The Byrds

4/5

A nice slice of 60s psychedelia

The Madcap Laughs

Syd Barrett

3/5

Shalimar

Rahul Dev Burman

1/5

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder

5/5

A belter of an album by an artist at the top of their game.

Sheer Heart Attack

Queen

5/5

Risque

CHIC

3/5

Some funky sounds on this but gets a bit samey.

Liquid Swords

GZA

3/5

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

3/5

This is one of those albums that mostly everyone in the late 90’s owned. A few classic tracks but relentlessly repetitive on the fillers.

Aja

Steely Dan

1/5

Another dull album for 1970’s american radio - honestly can’t see what about this I needed to hear before I went to bed today - far less before I die. Worse of all there’s several more of this bland Americana on the list - I can only assume the author needed to tick a “music for people with no taste” option. The only redeeming feature is that De La Soul sampled “Peg” and made it into a much better song.

Basket of Light

Pentangle

3/5

Quite enjoyed this - I’m now off to read pillars of the earth and drink mead.

Jazz Samba

Stan Getz

4/5

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme

Simon & Garfunkel

4/5

American Idiot

Green Day

5/5

The high water mark for Green Day and another album I’ve listened to constantly since its release.

The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus

4/5

I’m not quite sure if I’m ready for experimental jazz - I think I enjoyed it but it also filled me with dread. I also want to go watch some film noir now for some reason.

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

4/5

More music needs flutes

Buffalo Springfield Again

Buffalo Springfield

3/5

Pornography

The Cure

4/5

The cure at their lowest ebb manage to make some of their best music.

1989

Taylor Swift

4/5

Pop perfection - there’s not a song on this that couldn’t be released as a chart single. You may not be a fan of Taylor Swift but you can’t deny that she’s a massive talent and stands head and shoulders above the multitude of copycat artists that have appeared since this album.

Good Old Boys

Randy Newman

2/5

Never heard him before outside of tunes for Toy Story - that’s all I could think of while listening to this - however with the lyrical content it’s unlikely any of these are appearing in the next Pixar production!!!

Hearts And Bones

Paul Simon

3/5

Would have been a 2 but the late great Johnny Ace added a point.

The White Album

Beatles

5/5

Franz Ferdinand

4/5

Pretentious art school rock but I can’t help myself - this album is an absolute banger.

White Light

Gene Clark

1/5

The byrds and their respective members were much more fun when taking LSD.

Exile In Guyville

Liz Phair

3/5

Ten

Pearl Jam

5/5

One of the best albums to come out of the grunge scene. Some of the tracks still hit hard (Jeremy, Black). It’s been on rotation in my collection for over 30 years now.

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

5/5

Me and this album have many memories, chilling with friends, post party early mornings, late night gatherings. Sheer ambient bliss. It’s not for everyone but for me it’s my go to album to find that zen place.

Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai

3/5

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes

2/5

Can’t deny the man has a voice made for soul - unfortunately the entire album comes across as self indulgent and kinda uninteresting for large parts of each track.

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré

2/5

Relaxing enough sounds but nothing if actively choose to listen to again.

Who's Next

The Who

5/5

Nilsson Schmilsson

Harry Nilsson

4/5

The Doors

2/5

The doors best album but still bogged down by Morrison’s bad poetry masquerading as lyrics. Overrated.

Scott 2

Scott Walker

4/5

Come Find Yourself

Fun Lovin' Criminals

3/5

Born In The U.S.A.

Bruce Springsteen

3/5

I’ve never been a fan of Springsteen but I absolutely get why he is huge. The album is mostly end to end hit after hit. Maybe you need to be from the states to connect with it.

Signing Off

UB40

2/5

Oxygène

Jean-Michel Jarre

4/5

Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)

Bob Dylan

2/5

I just can’t get into Bob Dylan - as a songwriter he’s one of the best ever but as a singer he sounds like a drunk in a pub karaoke.

Heaven Or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins

3/5

Psychocandy

The Jesus And Mary Chain

3/5

A hard one to rate as it’s not an easy listen for someone coming into it blind. It’s a 3 because it’s not clicked for me - it may become a 4 in the future but I can’t amend votes.

Bad

Michael Jackson

2/5

This has aged like milk.

Paul's Boutique

Beastie Boys

3/5

Rust In Peace

Megadeth

5/5

Bug

Dinosaur Jr.

1/5

En-Tact

The Shamen

3/5

Hunky Dory

David Bowie

4/5

California

American Music Club

3/5

Winter In America

Gil Scott-Heron

3/5

Jagged Little Pill

Alanis Morissette

4/5

I was a fan of this in the 90’s and it still holds up well.

Ray Of Light

Madonna

3/5

Got to give Madonna her due - she always knew how to jump on a trend. This is her late 90’s electro pop period and probably the last decent album she made.

Tigermilk

Belle & Sebastian

3/5

Devotional Songs

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

2/5

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company

2/5

I just can’t take to Janis Joplin - there’s some great musicianship on this album but every time she opens her mouth it ruins it.

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

3/5

Music Has The Right To Children

Boards of Canada

3/5

Parklife

Blur

5/5

The high water mark of britpop and Blurs best album.

Sunshine Superman

Donovan

4/5

Just the 60’s in musical form.

Hunting High And Low

a-ha

4/5

Third/Sister Lovers

Big Star

2/5

Elvis Presley

2/5

Larks' Tongues In Aspic

King Crimson

4/5

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses

4/5

Exile On Main Street

The Rolling Stones

3/5

I Against I

Bad Brains

2/5

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Soft Cell

2/5

Purple Rain

Prince

5/5

...And Justice For All

Metallica

5/5

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone

4/5

Smile

Brian Wilson

3/5

Live And Dangerous

Thin Lizzy

3/5

First Band On The Moon

The Cardigans

2/5

Public Image: First Issue

Public Image Ltd.

1/5

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde

1/5

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm

A Tribe Called Quest

3/5

Sign 'O' The Times

Prince

4/5

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

She's So Unusual

Cyndi Lauper

3/5

Stankonia

OutKast

2/5

Brothers

The Black Keys

3/5

Connected

Stereo MC's

3/5

Among The Living

Anthrax

4/5

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson

4/5

Welcome to the Afterfuture

Mike Ladd

3/5

You're Living All Over Me

Dinosaur Jr.

2/5

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

5/5

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lana Del Rey

1/5

Truth And Soul

Fishbone

4/5

NEU! 75

Neu!

3/5

Abraxas

Santana

3/5

Isn't Anything

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Parachutes

Coldplay

2/5

On The Beach

Neil Young

2/5

I just can’t listen to his voice.

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

3/5

I can’t help but love the big band excess paired with that set of pipes.

A Girl Called Dusty

Dusty Springfield

3/5

Nixon

Lambchop

1/5

Dull Dull Dull

Tidal

Fiona Apple

4/5

The Stranger

Billy Joel

3/5

Moondance

Van Morrison

3/5

The Score

Fugees

4/5

The Idiot

Iggy Pop

3/5

Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers

2/5

Fever To Tell

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

4/5

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A.

3/5

Eternally Yours

The Saints

3/5

Fear and Whiskey

Mekons

1/5

Buena Vista Social Club

2/5

Roger the Engineer

The Yardbirds

4/5

Shleep

Robert Wyatt

2/5

Interesting as a curio but wouldn’t listen again.

Live At The Star Club, Hamburg

Jerry Lee Lewis

2/5

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen

2/5

Fragile

Yes

3/5

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys

2/5

Dookie

Green Day

5/5

Bubble And Scrape

Sebadoh

1/5

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists

4/5

Remedy

Basement Jaxx

3/5

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

4/5

Second Toughest In The Infants

Underworld

4/5

Close To The Edge

Yes

3/5

Coat Of Many Colors

Dolly Parton

4/5

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

4/5

Deja Vu

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

2/5

Something/Anything?

Todd Rundgren

3/5

Blood On The Tracks

Bob Dylan

3/5

Hail To the Thief

Radiohead

4/5

Porcupine

Echo And The Bunnymen

3/5

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco

2/5

Hypnotised

The Undertones

3/5

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

3/5

Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto

4/5

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye West

1/5

Fck Kanye

Horses

Patti Smith

3/5

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin

4/5

Walking Wounded

Everything But The Girl

2/5

Better than the other album they had on the list but still manages to be dull as ditchwater.

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor

3/5

Since I Left You

The Avalanches

5/5

One of the best albums of its type - a myriad of samples mixed to make a kaleidoscopic album that flows from track to track.

The Next Day

David Bowie

4/5

For an artist that had such a long career this is a return to form.

The Last Broadcast

Doves

3/5

Another of those albums that loads of my friends loved and I just didn’t get - it’s alright and there goes the fear is a cracker of a song bit it never quite reaches the greatness of that tune. It’s a solid 2.5 out of 5 but I can’t give half points.

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

2/5

It may be the origin of heavy metal (stateside) but Sabbath did it better. An interesting piece of music history.

One Nation Under A Groove

Funkadelic

4/5

Blur

4/5

Me Against The World

2Pac

2/5

Like A Prayer

Madonna

4/5

Pretty much peak Madge.

Parallel Lines

Blondie

4/5

The album with most of the songs you know by Blondie - runs out of steam a bit in the last 1/3.

The Sensual World

Kate Bush

3/5

Fear Of Music

Talking Heads

3/5

I like talking heads but this isn’t the best version of them.

Different Class

Pulp

5/5

Possibly the best album to come out of the whole Brit pop scene.

Teenage Head

Flamin' Groovies

3/5

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

1/5

Midnight Ride

Paul Revere & The Raiders

3/5

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

4/5

Marcus Garvey

Burning Spear

2/5

Lost Souls

Doves

3/5

Brilliant Corners

Thelonious Monk

3/5

A bit more jazz than I maybe like my jazz

Duck Rock

Malcolm McLaren

2/5

Deloused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta

3/5

Hadn’t heard them before - quite liked it in a modern prog way

3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul

5/5

Back At The Chicken Shack

Jimmy Smith

3/5

Tea for the Tillerman

Cat Stevens

4/5

Licensed To Ill

Beastie Boys

4/5

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane

3/5

Maverick A Strike

Finley Quaye

3/5

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

Solid Air

John Martyn

3/5

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

3/5

An amazing vocalist but the show tunes vibe isn’t really my thing.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Argh more boreplay.

Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Music for American blue collar workers, steeped in Americana. Unfortunately it’s all a bit too po faced. Give me Meat Loaf and a bit of cheese any day.

Blackstar

David Bowie

3/5

The Age Of The Understatement

The Last Shadow Puppets

4/5

Technique

New Order

1/5

Blue Monday and True Faith are amazing songs - unfortunately neither of these are on this album. What we have here is New Order on the cusp of their team up with the England football team and well on the slide into mediocrity.

The Bones Of What You Believe

CHVRCHES

4/5

Ramones

4/5

Kenya

Machito

3/5

In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sinatra

1/5

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

3/5

Le Tigre

2/5

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

3/5

Let's Stay Together

Al Green

3/5

One amazing song and a bunch that aren’t as good.

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder

5/5

Elephant Mountain

The Youngbloods

3/5

Talking Heads 77

Talking Heads

2/5

Hard Again

Muddy Waters

4/5

New Forms

Roni Size

2/5

Black Sabbath

5/5

Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Tortoise

1/5

Goes on a bit

Tracy Chapman

4/5

Music for the Masses

Depeche Mode

3/5

Rid Of Me

PJ Harvey

2/5

Ready To Die

The Notorious B.I.G.

1/5

Disintegration

The Cure

4/5

Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

John Zorn

1/5

is it something I’m glad to have heard - possibly. Is it something I’d willingly listen to again - no.

We're Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

1/5

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

3/5

The Band

2/5

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

1/5

Cloud Nine

The Temptations

3/5

Atomizer

Big Black

3/5

Frampton Comes Alive

Peter Frampton

4/5

The Man Machine

Kraftwerk

5/5

Moving Pictures

Rush

5/5

All Directions

The Temptations

4/5

The Stooges

3/5

Tres Hombres

ZZ Top

3/5

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

1/5

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

3/5

Kilimanjaro

The Teardrop Explodes

4/5

Dire Straits

4/5

Bossanova

Pixies

3/5

All Mod Cons

The Jam

4/5

2112

Rush

4/5

Immigrés

Youssou N'Dour

4/5

Frank

Amy Winehouse

2/5

Sincere

Mj Cole

1/5

Raw Power

The Stooges

4/5

The United States Of America

3/5

Architecture And Morality

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

4/5

25

Adele

4/5

Kollaps

Einstürzende Neubauten

4/5

Master Of Puppets

Metallica

5/5

Gold

Ryan Adams

1/5

Blue Lines

Massive Attack

5/5

Shake Your Money Maker

The Black Crowes

4/5

My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

3/5

Rock 'N Soul

Solomon Burke

3/5

Ok but nothing earth shattering

Heartattack And Vine

Tom Waits

1/5

Like a drunk at karaoke - not for me

Blue

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen

The Residents

3/5

Absolutely nuts but can hear the influence it had on artists like Primus, Beck etc

Meat Is Murder

The Smiths

3/5

Morrissey is a cunt - it says a lot for this album that I can give it 3 stars

New York Dolls

3/5

Planet Rock: The Album

Afrika Bambaataa

3/5

Transformer

Lou Reed

4/5

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

4/5

Goodbye And Hello

Tim Buckley

2/5

Music

Madonna

1/5

Madge peaked with vogue - this is superfluous noise.

Revolver

Beatles

5/5

Tom Tom Club

3/5

Private Dancer

Tina Turner

2/5

Painfully 80’s and not in a good way.

Ágætis Byrjun

Sigur Rós

3/5

Manassas

Stephen Stills

2/5

Blood And Chocolate

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

2/5

Your New Favourite Band

The Hives

3/5

Songs From The Big Chair

Tears For Fears

4/5

Movies

Holger Czukay

2/5

Space Ritual

Hawkwind

1/5

Tried to listen to them over the years but it’s not for me. It’s meant to sound trippy and futuristic but comes across as dull and a bit wank.

Doggystyle

Snoop Dogg

2/5

I enjoyed this back in the day but like all rap of this era it’s aged badly. The beats are great and the flow is catchy but the lyrical content is terrible.

L'Eau Rouge

The Young Gods

4/5

French nightmare fuel - enjoyed lots

The Wildest!

Louis Prima

4/5

Lazer Guided Melodies

Spiritualized

2/5

With The Beatles

Beatles

3/5

In It For The Money

Supergrass

4/5

Elvis Is Back

Elvis Presley

2/5

MTV Unplugged In New York

Nirvana

4/5

Possibly the best thing Nirvana recorded.

Third

Portishead

3/5

Wonderful Rainbow

Lightning Bolt

2/5

One of the most uncomfortable listens I’ve had on this list but not a bad album in its own way.

Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex

3/5

Ill Communication

Beastie Boys

5/5

Palo Congo

Sabu

2/5

Gentlemen

The Afghan Whigs

2/5

Heroes

David Bowie

3/5

Post Orgasmic Chill

Skunk Anansie

4/5

Youth And Young Manhood

Kings of Leon

4/5

S.F. Sorrow

The Pretty Things

4/5

Celebrity Skin

Hole

3/5

Peter Gabriel

3/5

Rattlesnakes

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

2/5

Bongo Rock

Incredible Bongo Band

3/5

16 Lovers Lane

The Go-Betweens

2/5

Guitar Town

Steve Earle

1/5

Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney

2/5

Vol. 4

Black Sabbath

3/5

Tellin’ Stories

The Charlatans

5/5

Coles Corner

Richard Hawley

2/5

I Am a Bird Now

Antony and the Johnsons

1/5

Fromohio

fIREHOSE

1/5

Honky Tonk Masquerade

Joe Ely

1/5

Eagles

2/5

Chore of Enchantment

Giant Sand

1/5

Black Holes and Revelations

Muse

5/5

The Slim Shady LP

Eminem

3/5

The Poet

Bobby Womack

2/5

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin

5/5

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

1/5

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

4/5

Hejira

Joni Mitchell

2/5

Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp

3/5

Treasure

Cocteau Twins

4/5

Nick Of Time

Bonnie Raitt

1/5

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

3/5

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen

2/5

Arular

M.I.A.

1/5

Vespertine

Björk

4/5

Sound Affects

The Jam

4/5

Vento De Maio

Elis Regina

2/5

Station To Station

David Bowie

4/5

Talk Talk Talk

The Psychedelic Furs

4/5

Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby

3/5

Kenza

Khaled

2/5

The Notorious Byrd Brothers

The Byrds

2/5

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo

Devo

4/5

Life Thru A Lens

Robbie Williams

2/5

Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches

Happy Mondays

4/5

Fire Of Love

The Gun Club

3/5

The Joshua Tree

U2

4/5

Here's Little Richard

Little Richard

4/5

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

1/5

Before And After Science

Brian Eno

4/5

Face to Face

The Kinks

4/5

Urban Hymns

The Verve

3/5

Antichrist Superstar

Marilyn Manson

2/5

Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

Loretta Lynn

1/5

Twee country music, everything I hate about American music.

Armed Forces

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

4/5

Beautiful Freak

Eels

2/5

Time Out Of Mind

Bob Dylan

2/5

I just can’t get into Dylan - bored out of my mind trying to get through this.

Crazysexycool

TLC

3/5

A decent mid 90’s female hip hop album - probably the template for countless bands at the time and waterfalls is still a classic pop song.

World Clique

Deee-Lite

3/5

The sound you get when funk and disco meet early 90’s house. Groovy but dated.

Copper Blue

Sugar

2/5

Scum

Napalm Death

2/5

The La's

4/5

In Rainbows

Radiohead

5/5

Faith

George Michael

5/5

The best pop album of the 80’s

Hounds Of Love

Kate Bush

5/5

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

1/5

It may be an important album but it’s just not for me.

Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Spiritualized

4/5

An album I’ve heard a few times over the years - enjoyable without being exceptional.

Swordfishtrombones

Tom Waits

1/5

Murder Ballads

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

Stephen Stills

2/5

American Gothic

David Ackles

1/5

Imperial Bedroom

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

1/5

Truth

Jeff Beck

4/5

Spiderland

Slint

3/5

New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)

Simple Minds

2/5

Step In The Arena

Gang Starr

3/5

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

3/5

Sunshine Hit Me

The Bees

2/5

Achtung Baby

U2

4/5

That brief point when U2 were the biggest band in the world.

Call of the Valley

Shivkumar Sharma

4/5

Eliminator

ZZ Top

3/5

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

1/5

Modern hip hop is shite.

Here, My Dear

Marvin Gaye

3/5

The Man Who

Travis

4/5

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

4/5

Slanted And Enchanted

Pavement

3/5

A Walk Across The Rooftops

The Blue Nile

2/5

Nowhere

Ride

4/5

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix

5/5

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco

1/5

Faust IV

Faust

4/5

Slayed?

Slade

3/5

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

4/5

Miriam Makeba

2/5

Daydream Nation

Sonic Youth

3/5

E.V.O.L.

Sonic Youth

3/5

Apple Venus Volume 1

XTC

2/5

Caetano Veloso

2/5

Real Life

Magazine

4/5

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics

2/5

Ys

Joanna Newsom

1/5

21

Adele

4/5

The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

4/5

Django Django

3/5

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

3/5

The Fat Of The Land

The Prodigy

5/5

Another Green World

Brian Eno

4/5

The Dreaming

Kate Bush

4/5

Damaged

Black Flag

4/5

Ctrl

SZA

1/5

Slipknot

5/5

Fuzzy Logic

Super Furry Animals

4/5

The Marshall Mathers LP

Eminem

3/5

Hysteria

Def Leppard

4/5

It’s proper 80’s cheese rock but I can’t help but enjoy it.

Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs

Marty Robbins

3/5

Enjoyable country songs that all tell a little tale.

Being There

Wilco

2/5

More Songs About Buildings And Food

Talking Heads

2/5

I really should like talking heads but I just can’t get into them.

Odelay

Beck

5/5

One of the best albums of the 90’s for me and still a great listen today.

Dig Your Own Hole

The Chemical Brothers

4/5

Picture Book

Simply Red

1/5

Born To Be With You

Dion

1/5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Red Snapper

2/5

Paris 1919

John Cale

2/5

Reggatta De Blanc

The Police

4/5

Tapestry

Carole King

4/5

Third

Soft Machine

2/5

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple

3/5

Group Sex

Circle Jerks

2/5

Cut

The Slits

3/5

Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

1/5

Musical masturbation - the kind of thing people pretend to like to show how interesting their musical taste is.

GREY Area

Little Simz

2/5

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

Roots

Sepultura

4/5

Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival

4/5

Guero

Beck

3/5

Nowhere near his best work

The Message

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

4/5

Two Dancers

Wild Beasts

1/5

Foo Fighters

5/5

It’s a 4 star album getting a 5 star rating because it’s the only Foo Fighters on the list and they are better than all the Elvis Costello, Strely Dan and Nick Cave shite this list has served me up. It should be The Colour and the Shape though - that’s a 5.

Garbage

4/5

Dummy

Portishead

5/5

Many late nights spent with this as the soundtrack. Haunting, beautiful and still fresh sounding.

Reign In Blood

Slayer

1/5

I just don’t get slayer

More Specials

The Specials

3/5

Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

1/5

Turgid modern country rock

The Gilded Palace Of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers

1/5

Savane

Ali Farka Touré

3/5

The Who Sell Out

The Who

2/5

One great song and a lot of drugs being taken.

Want One

Rufus Wainwright

1/5

Magnolia paint in musical form - Inoffensive and no distinct identity but something you’ll never want to have in your house after 6 months

If I Should Fall From Grace With God

The Pogues

4/5

Wild Gift

X

3/5

Dirt

Alice In Chains

3/5

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Small Faces

4/5

London Calling

The Clash

4/5

Hot Shots II

The Beta Band

3/5

1999

Prince

3/5

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The 13th Floor Elevators

2/5

The White Room

The KLF

4/5

They got a country legend to sing some ridiculous lyrics - that’s an extra point in itself.

American IV: The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

4/5

Black Monk Time

The Monks

3/5

Medúlla

Björk

4/5

There’s a fine line between genius and madness and Björk sits firmly in that space.

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis

4/5

Tommy

The Who

3/5

All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot

2/5

Blunderbuss

Jack White

4/5

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

3/5

Close To You

Carpenters

2/5

Saccharine music but well done. The big hits are classics but it loses a point for murdering Help.

Ragged Glory

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

1/5

Nope I just don’t like Neil Young - his vocal style is somewhere between angry cat and drunk uncle at New Year.

Tank Battles

Dagmar Krause

3/5

A strange and interesting musical curio, the German language version of the album sounds better.

Leftism

Leftfield

4/5

I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Richard Thompson

3/5

Oracular Spectacular

MGMT

2/5

Hipster wank music - 2 good songs does not a great album make.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

5/5

Night Life

Ray Price

2/5

Music my gran would listen to - not terrible but definitely not good.

The Low End Theory

A Tribe Called Quest

4/5

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

4/5

Vanishing Point

Primal Scream

2/5

Siamese Dream

The Smashing Pumpkins

3/5

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Raekwon

1/5

Red Dirt Girl

Emmylou Harris

2/5

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

2/5

Fisherman's Blues

The Waterboys

3/5

...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

The Dandy Warhols

3/5

Aftermath

The Rolling Stones

3/5

Dare!

The Human League

3/5

Sail Away

Randy Newman

2/5

The Pleasure Principle

Gary Numan

3/5

The Colour Of Spring

Talk Talk

3/5

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley

2/5

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

3/5

Whatever

Aimee Mann

3/5

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

Supa Dupa Fly

Missy Elliott

2/5

Teenager Of The Year

Frank Black

3/5

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

2/5

Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith

3/5

Rum Sodomy & The Lash

The Pogues

4/5

The Healer

John Lee Hooker

3/5

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder

3/5

The Scream

Siouxsie And The Banshees

2/5

Cypress Hill

2/5

Raw Like Sushi

Neneh Cherry

3/5

Pacific Ocean Blue

Dennis Wilson

2/5

Sheet Music

10cc

2/5

Mothership Connection

Parliament

4/5

Mr. Tambourine Man

The Byrds

3/5

Jack Takes the Floor

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

2/5

Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

2/5

Rain Dogs

Tom Waits

1/5

Sounds like a drunk uncle singing karaoke while murdering a clown.

Very

Pet Shop Boys

3/5

Not their best album but a few absolute crackers on here.

When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Cornershop

1/5

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

3/5

War

U2

5/5

U2 before they sold out to become a stadium band. Some absolute classics on here.

The New Tango

Astor Piazzolla

2/5

Trans Europe Express

Kraftwerk

4/5

Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

Laura Nyro

2/5

Happy Trails

Quicksilver Messenger Service

2/5

Queens of the Stone Age

3/5

Da Capo

Love

2/5

The Real Thing

Faith No More

5/5

The Predator

Ice Cube

1/5

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